2: Presentation of the Wind / Lung

Three subdivisions:

1. Essence of the wind

2. Enumeration of the wind

3. Division of the wind

First, Essence of the Wind

All functions of the body are performed by the wind. 

This wind has two aspects; wind of afflictive emotions and wind of nirvana.

The wind of afflictions produce our physical and mental suffering.

The wind of nirvana produce our physical and mental happiness.

Second, Enumeration of the wind

Three subdivisions: 

1. extensive

2. medium

3. condensed

First, Extensive Essence of the Wind

Precious winds of existing: 25 winds.

(These are not discussed in details, but Shardza Rinpoche mentions they come from the scriptures)

Second, Medium Essence of the Wind

There are nine kinds of winds.

1. Wind of the expanse of the nature of reality.

2. Bliss wind of primordial wisdom

3. Natural wind of rigpa.

4. Horse wind of mind.

5. Wind of the karma.

6. Wind of afflictive emotions

7. Wind that disturbs our physical health.

8. Wind of the samsaric existing.

9. World destroying wind.

1 Wind of the expanse of the nature of reality

Wind of the expanse of the nature of reality performs the actions of the nature of reality. This means that all impermanent phenomena have this wind of the nature of reality. This gives the wind of the capacity of their reality. Like water flows down, and fire goes up. 

2 Bliss wind of primordial wisdom

The bliss wind of primordial wisdom performs the action of producing our own primordial wisdom, yeshe. This primordial wisdom depends on the inner most subtle wind. What is this inner most subtle wind? It is the bliss wind of primordial wisdom. When you connect with this wind, yeshe naturally arises. 

3 Natural wind of rigpa.

The natural wind of rigpa (awareness) performs the function of self-arising rigpa. Rigpa and the natural wind of awareness are inseparable. But they are also not one. Without natural wind of awareness, rigpa cannot arise or exist. Rigpa performs its function within this natural wind. This is why after death, there is still rigpa in this subtle wind of awareness. Within that the practitioner can be continued on that stage of ripga, called tukdom. This natural wind of rigpa does not rely on causes and conditions, but arises on its own nature.

4 Horse wind of mind.

The horse wind of mind performs the function of various movements of the body, speech, and thinking. Everything is connected with this wind. When this horse wind stops, mind cannot perform thoughts. Mind will then settle down. Catch the horse wind, means where thoughts are happening. When the horse stops, thoughts, speech, and body stop.

5 Wind of the karma.

The wind of the power of karma performs the activity of the bardo. In the bardo state there is a lot of movement. This is not physical, but mental movement. All the activities of the bardo are made by this wind. This is how you move through the bardo. This is why they say not to make karma, as it gives rise to much horse wind of the mind. 

6 Harsh Wind of afflictive emotions

The harsh wind of afflictive emotions performs the function of five poisons; anger, jealousy, pride, desire, and ignorance. Every consciousness is performed by this wind; powered by this wind. If we don’t know selflessness then we are grasping at self. This grasping is through this wind. The connection with the “I, me, mine”, our impure motivations are generated by this wind. Why do you become angry? Because you connect with the harsh wind of afflictive emotions. It’s never the object of our anger. This is why we are the refuge and the protector, because all the poisons come from us.

7 Wind that disturbs our physical health.

The wind that disturbs our subtle atomic assembly of physical health performs the function of disturbing the elements and produces sickness. This is the main source of imbalance of the elements and our sickness, even more so than karma (karma is still at work.) When the elements are imbalanced, we get sick. Diet, exercise, and good sleep all are important to reduce this wind. It is all within our hand, our control. But when it gets out of hand, we should see a doctor. But before it gets bad, all of this depends on how our wind functions through our actions. 

8 Wind of the samsaric existing.

The wind of the power of samsara performs the function of creating the samsara world and its inhabitants. How do you connect to samsara? Through how you are walking, speaking, thinking, and acting in the world. This world that manifests is your world. How you live within these circumstances are connected to this wind. If you control this wind, you can make within this samsaric world good qualities of body, speech, and mind such as being friendly, making friends, healthy, and a good life. If you don’t control this wind, we suffer from this wind.

9 World destroying wind.

The world destroying wind (destructions of the eons) performs the function of destroying the outer world and sentient beings. This means our own world, and sentient beings means our self. Our own world, where we live, our house, friends, our city, our country, and ourselves; this is our world. When this wind is out of control, then we destroy our outer body and our inner elements.

Each of these winds have 5 parts.

Five Winds of each of the nine winds

Wind of the expanse of the nature of reality has

Five winds of enlightened bodies. The five enlightened bodies:

1. Reality Body - Dharmakaya

2. Completion Body - Sambhogakaya

3. Emanation Body - Nirmāṇakāya

4. Nature Body

5. Fully Enlightened Body

Each of these five have their own wind. This wind is not only element wind according to tummo. Element wind is impermanent and produced by causes and conditions. These give enlightened body winds are not element winds produced by causes and conditions.

Bliss wind of primordial wisdom has

Five Wisdom Winds:

1. Wind of the wisdom of reality

2. Wind of mirrorl-ike wisdom

3. Wind of wisdom of equality

4. Wind of the wisdom of discernment

5. Wind of the wisdom of all-accomplishing wisdom

These five winds are also not element winds. These winds are the same nature as wisdom. In their subtle level they are the winds of Primordial Wisdom. But we usually connect to the coarse gross level winds. We have the inner subtle winds, but we don’t connect because we are too busy with the gross winds. Too busy eating, and enjoying stuff.

Natural wind of rigpa has

Five Winds of the Nature of Rigpa

1. Object apprehending wind

2. Apprehending consciousness wind

3. Activity wind (ability to perform functions)

4. Wind that recognizes delusion

5. Wind that recognizes the unmistaken (knowing reality)

Horse wind of mind has

Five Winds of the Horse of Mind: (winds that are the dominant conditions of the five sense doors. The produce their own affect; the apprehension of the object)

1. Wind that is the dominant conditions of the eye sense power

2. Wind that is the dominant conditions of the nose sense power

3. Wind that is the dominant conditions of the ear sense power

4. Wind that is the dominant conditions of the tongue sense power

5. Wind that is the dominant conditions of the body sense power

Wind of the karma has

Five Types of the Power of Karmic Winds:

1. Wind of the good karma

2. Wind of bad karma

3. Neutral karmic wind

4. Karmic wind of happiness

5. Karmic wind of suffering

Harshe Wind of afflictive emotions has 

Five Afflictive Emotions Winds:

1. Wind of Desire

2. Wind of Anger

3. Wind of Ignorance

4. Wind of Pride

5. Wind of jealousy

Wind that disturbs our physical health has

Winds of physical disturbances:

1. Wind that cause wind illness

2. Wind that cause bile illness

3. Wind that cause phlegm illness

4. Wind that causes all disease together (wind, bile, and phlegm)

5. Wind that produces two-fold disease (wind & bile, or bile & phlegm, or wind & phlegm)

Wind of the cyclic existence has

Winds of Samsara (cyclic existence):

1. Wind of the pure birth

2. Wind of the impure birth

3. Wind of the external world

4. Wind of the inner beings

5. Wind of the bardo state

World destroying wind has

Winds of the Eons

1. Wind of the eon of power of compassion

2. Wind of the eon of lifespan

3. Wind of the eon of time

4. Wind of the eon of karma

5. Wind of the eon of destruction

The eon of power of compassion means the eon that does not have any five poisons. Here there is no need to be angry, jealous, or desire. Beings here have no need for this, everything is perfect. But slowly one at a time, eon by eon, the poisons are introduced and grab hold. In our current eon, all the poisons are present.

Wind of the eon of lifespan means that every sentient being has their own eon of a lifespan, from birds, to human, to hungry ghosts. This is connected with the wind.

Wind of the eon of time means that every impermanent phenomena has its own time. A flower has its own time for it to manifest. This applies to materials, as well as living beings. Babies are only babies for a time, affected by this wind.

Wind of the eon of karma connects everything. How many friends you have, if you have a job, children, house, etc. All of this is produced and connected with this wind. Everything is moving by this karmic wind.

The wind of the eon of destruction is responsible for destroying everything, from all sentient beings, to all the planets and galaxies. 

Nine winds with Five subdivisions total 45 kinds of winds.

Third, The Condensed Enumeration of the Wind

Condensed into three divisions:

1. Winds of Samsara

2. Co-emergent Winds (innate wind) 

3. Meditation Winds

Winds of Samsara

Samsaric wind is the wind that sustains the life-force and clears the channel tube.

Co-emergent Winds

Co-emergent Winds are the 45 winds taught above.

Meditation Winds has four divisions:

1. Self-cessation of the Winds

2. Stopping the Winds by Counting

3. Stopping the Winds by Forceful Method

4. Stopping Winds Gradually

1: Self-cessation of the Winds

Three subdivisions:

1. Ultimate self-cessation of the Wind

2. Similar self-cessation of the Wind

3. Seeming self-cessation of the Wind

Ultimate Self-cessation of the Wind

This is the pure nature of the wind which is possessed by the Buddha. The Buddhas have wind, and it is this ultimate self-cessation of the wind.

The Wind that is Similar to the self-cessation of the Wind

This is the wind possessed by Bodhisattvas. This is not real self-cessation of the wind, but a wind similar to it. Possessed by those who have Bodhichitta.

Seeming Self-cessation of the Wind

This is the wind that is the incoming and outgoing breath of the gods of the form realm (of the three realms). This is not like our human breath of the desire realm. 

2: Stopping the Winds by Counting

There are the nine kinds of winds, taught earlier above.

1. Wind of the expanse of the nature of reality.

2. Bliss wind of primordial wisdom

3. Natural wind of rigpa.

4. Horse wind of mind.

5. Wind of the karma.

6. Wind of afflictive emotions

7. Wind that disturbs our physical health.

8. Wind of the samsaric existing.

9. World destroying wind.

9 winds above multiplied by 2,400 = 21,600 Winds

A healthy, young person has 21,600 innate winds flowing through the mouth and nose in a single day. These 21,600 winds are called the “Stopping the Winds by Counting”

Through all of these 21,600 winds are generated the many winds of happiness, suffering, good & bad, birth and death, sleep and awake and so on.

3: Stopping the Winds by Forceful Method

Or the forceful cessation of the wind. This is the Vase Breathing wind. This is where the upper and lower winds are united and compressed like a vase. This is the actual practice of Tummo section called “Vase Breathing” which will be explained later.

4: Stopping Winds Gradually

Has four divisions:

1. Life Supporting Wind

2. Tube Clearing Wind

3. Wind of Great Medicine

4. Bliss Producing Wind

Life Supporting Wind

This wind is what gives life support and life-force. When the wind and mind stop projecting thoughts, at that time the wind of gradually stopping wind of life supporting is present. This means the person who gradually stops their breath, also stops their thoughts. At that moment, the wind that is present is this wind.

Tube Clearing Wind

This wind clears the path of the channels. The Nine Cleansing Breaths are these tube clearing winds.

Winds of Great Medicine

These winds force out all the illnesses through the pores through Tummo practice. Wind occurring at the time of doing the Keksal exercise. A type of Trul Khor to remove illness through exercise. These Keksal Trul Khor winds are these winds of Great Medicine. They clear inner blockages and illnesses through movement.

Bliss Producing Wind

This wind opens the mouth of the central channel. Like the wind of the practice of meditative equanimity, which is the wind that goes through the central channel and opens the mouth of the central channel. This is the Bliss Producing Wind. 

Third, the Division of the Wind

The division of the wind has three parts:

1. The division of the root winds

2. The division of the branch winds

3. The division of the subsidiary winds

4. The division of the wind of the leaf.

1: The division of the root winds

There are 17 paths of the root winds.

1. Five Precious Root Winds

2. Five Locations of the Five Root Winds

3. Shape of the Five Root Winds

4. Five Functions of the Five Root Winds

5. Five Basic Intentions of the Five Root Winds

6. Five Colors of the Five Root Winds

7. Five Qualities of the Five Root Winds

8. Five Defects of the Winds being blocked of the Five Root Winds

9. Five Powers of the Meditations of the Five Root Winds

10. Five-fold that become the afflictive emotions

11. Five methods of holding the Five Root Winds

12. Five Signs of Successfully holding the five root winds

13. Five-fold of wrong practice of the Five Precious Root Winds

14. How to correct and treat the five-fold wrong practice

15. Joining the Five Root Winds

16. Five fruits of the practice of the Five Precious Root Winds

17. Fruit completion of the Five Precious Root Winds practice

1) Five Precious Root Winds

1. Upper Moving Wind

2. Life Supporting Wind

3. Fire Accompanying Wind

4. Pervading Wind

5. Downward Clearing Wind

2) Five Locations of the Five Root Winds

1. Upper Moving Wind moves from the chest to the nasal then brain chakra.

2. Life Supporting Wind is in the heart and lung. Mostly we focus on the heart.

3. Fire Accompanying Wind is in the navel, stomach, and intestines.

4. Pervading Wind is from below the naval goes throughout the body.

5. Downward Clearing Wind moves from below the secret door to the anus (gate of the secret door.

3) Shape of the Five Root Winds

1. The Upper Moving Wind is like a parasol.

2. The Life Supporting Wind is like a precious jewel.

3. The Fire Accompanying Wind is like a house blazing with three point fire.

4. The Pervading Wind is like sun rays shining in all directions. 

5. The Downward Clearing Wind is like bellow (fireplace bellow)

4) Five Functions of the Five Root Winds

1. The Upper Moving Wind functions to move the breath, swallow food, and speaking.

2. The Life Supporting Wind functions to keep the life-force and give power to the mind.

3. The Fire Accompanying Wind functions to digest food, produce warmth, and nourishment of the body.

4. The Pervading Wind functions the majority of the activities of the body.

5. The Downward Clearing Wind functions in producing and expelling feces and urine and discharging and restraining sperm.

5) Five Basic Intentions of the Five Root Winds

1. Upper Moving Wind makes the treasury house of the expanse of the crown open. The treasury house of the expanse of speech is also open.

2. Life Supporting Wind gives us long life and clear memories.

3. Fire Accompanying Wind gives blazing blissful warmth in the body.

4. Pervading Wind gives an unobstructed display of the magical power. (This is where magical powers come from)

5. Downward Clearing Wind increase bliss and the opening of the channels.

6) Five Colors of the Five Root Winds

1. Upper Moving Wind is the wind of the Earth Element and therefore Yellow.

2. Life Supporting Wind is the wind of the Space Element and therefore White.

3. Fire Accompanying Wind is the wind of the Fire Element and therefore Red.

4. Pervading Wind is the wind of the Wind Element and therefore Green.

5. Downward Clearing Wind is the wind of the Water Element and therefore Blue.

7) Five Qualities of the Five Root Winds

1. Upper Moving Wind generates the five sense powers and purifies head diseases.

2. Life Supporting Wind generates the energy of light and makes consciousness clear.

3. Fire Accompanying Wind generates the main essence of life and sperm/blood, and digest food.

4. Pervading Wind generates the strength in the limbs and performs all the functions of the body.

5. Downward Clearing Wind generates lifts the whole lower body and purifies stomach disorders.

8) Five Defects of the Winds being blocked of the Five Root Winds

1. If the Upper Moving Wind is blocked then one is mute and senses are dulled.

2. If the Life Supporting Wind is blocked then one can faint and die.

3. If the Fire Accompanying Wind is blocked then the nourishing essence of food will not be digested and one will be vomiting or have diarrhea. 

4. If the Pervading Wind is blocked then one will be unable to get up, and the limbs cannot work properly. 

5. If the Downward Clearing Wind is blocked then feces and urine are obstructed. 

9) Five Powers of the Meditations of the Five Root Winds

1. By meditating on the Upper Moving Wind at the throat one can fly and the melodies of the Bon resound. You can naturally sing the song of the teachings of Yungdrung Bon without any intention or motivation.

2. By meditating on the Life Supporting Wind at the heart you can generate joy, clarity, and the blazing of wisdoms.

3. By meditating on the Fire Accompanying Wind at the naval can generate the bliss warmth, like tummo.

4. By meditating on the Pervading Wind in the limbs you can produce many kinds of signs of accomplishment of practice (magical movements).

5. By meditating on the Downward Clearing Wind at the secret place produces the power of holding, leading, and spreading the sperm.

10) Five-fold that become the afflictive emotions

1. Upper Moving Wind not being held properly leads to lying, divisive speech, and pointless speech.

2. Life Supporting Wind not being held properly leads to anger, spiteful words, and conceptual thoughts increase.

3. Fire Accompanying Wind not being held properly leads to sleepy, and the mind becomes dull.

4. Pervading Wind not being held properly leads to stealing and excessive activities arise.

5. Downward Clearing Wind not being held properly leads to sexual misconduct and more attachment and desire.

11) Five methods of holding the Five Root Winds

1. The method for holding the Upper Moving Wind is to hold the nose and wind goes through the crown chakra. Breathing through the crown chakra. 

2. The method for holding the Life Supporting Wind is to relax the consciousness in a manner that dissolves every feeling and thought. 

3. The method for holding the Fire Accompanying Wind is to sit cross legged and press the stomach to the spine.

4. The method for holding the Pervading Wind is to bend the head and all limbs.

5. The method for holding the Downward Clearing Wind is to open and close the lower door.

12) Five Signs of Successfully holding the five root winds

1. If the Upper Moving Wind is held then one can fly and travel to the different realms.

2. If the Life Supporting Wind is held then one’s life is extended and one can transfer consciousness into another sentient being’s body.

3. If the Fire Accompanying Wind is held then one does not sink into water.

4. If the Pervading Wind is held then one can multiply the body into many bodies, and transform the body into any form, or any emanation. 

5. If the Downward Clearing Wind is held then all the positive qualities of the path of sex are attained. This is about the high level tantric sex practice, not normal sexual desire.

13) Five-fold of wrong practice of the Five Precious Root Winds

1. If the Upper Moving Wind is done wrong then one gets dizzy, and mute.

2. If the Life Supporting Wind is done wrong then one becomes angry, crazy, and forgetful.

3. If the Fire Accompanying Wind is done wrong then one can get sick with jaundice, tumors, and water diseases (accumulation of water in the body).

4. If the Pervading Wind is done wrong then one can get arthritis in the limbs, paralyzed limbs, or even seizures. 

5. If the Downward Clearing Wind is done wrong then one can get kidney disease and the elements of the body become imbalanced. 

14) How to correct and treat the five-fold wrong practice

1. The remedy or treatment of the Upper Moving Wind is to push the breath down and focus the mind on the lower door. Do this if the Upper Moving Wind is uncomfortable.

2. The remedy or treatment of the Life Supporting Wind is to massage the body and stay in meditation for longer periods. Meditation here can be single pointed concentration or on the natural state of mind.

3. The remedy or treatment of the Fire Accompanying Wind is to run, jump, and slap and rub the stomach.

4. The remedy or treatment of the Pervading Wind is to massage the limbs and stretch and contract the limbs. 

5. The remedy or treatment of the Downward Clearing Wind is to lift the breath upward from the secret place and press the stomach against the chest, and push up the lower wind.

15) Joining the Five Root Winds (Joining the five roots with the five chakras)

1. The joining of the Upper Moving Wind at the chakra of great bliss at the crown of the head. This symbolizes the Body of Reality, Dharmakaya.

2. The joining of the Life Supporting Wind at the chakra of reality at the heart. This symbolizes the Body of Completion, Sambhogakaya.

3. The joining of the Fire Accompanying Wind at the chakra of the naval symbolizes the emanation body, Nirmanakaya.

4. The joining of the Pervading Wind at all the limb chakras symbolizes the enlightened essence body. 

5. The joining of the Downward Clearing Wind at the secret chakra symbolized the body of great bliss.

16) Five fruits of the path practice of the Five Precious Root Winds (result of the path of the practice, not the ultimate result)

1. The result of the Upper Moving Wind is the control of the phowa (transfer of consciousness) and opening the crown chakra.

2. The result of the Life Supporting Wind is one’s energy goes properly, the essence of the life-force goes properly, and you can stay on the focus of concentration (object or emptiness) without distraction.

3. The result of the Fire Accompanying Wind is that you can emanate and transformation of the body.

4. The result of the Pervading Wind is recognition of dreams and realize/connect to the clear light luminosity.

5. The result of the Downward Clearing Wind is one can accomplish the path of sexual union. (Not sex by emotionality and attachment, but by realization)

17) Fruit completion of the Five Precious Root Winds practice (Final Result)

1. When the Five Root Winds connect to the crown chakra one can attain the quality of Great Bliss of the Primordial Wisdom Buddha.

2. When the Five Root Winds connect to the naval chakra then one can attain the quality of Clarity of the Perfection Body, Sambogakaya.

3. When the Five Root Winds connect to the heart chakra then one can attain the quality of noc-conceptual body of reality, the Dharmakaya.

4. When the Five Root Winds connect to the throat chakra then one can attain the quality of the equality of complete enlightenment.

5. When the Five Root Winds connect to the secret chakra then one can attain the quality of Great Bliss of Emanation Body, Nirmanakaya.

2: The division of the branch winds

The branch winds reside in 108 large channels. There are 108 large channels, and within them are 108 branch winds.

32 winds in the brain channels. 

32 winds in the chest channels.

32 winds in the four limbs channels. 

6 hidden winds in the king of the main channel and the queen of the life channel.

6 directly moving winds in the king of the main channel and the queen of the life channel.

Together they total 108.

3: The division of the subsidiary winds

There are 360 subsidiary winds that reside in the 360 manor channels.

120 winds in the channel that reveal the outer identity of the darkness. 

120 winds in the channel that lead through the center of the bones.

120 winds in the channel that hold the individual essential inner organs.

4: The division of the winds of the leaf

There are 84,000 winds of the leaf.

21,000 winds related to the pulsing of the winds.

21,000 winds related to the bile.

21,000 winds related to the phlegm.

21,000 winds related to the blood. 

21,000 x 4 totals 84,000 winds.